John Oliver Reveals Tea Party Tyranny

By The Daily Show

April 20, 2009

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The Daily Show's John Oliver lets the troubled Tea Party protesters air their confused grievances. Oliver, ever the proud imperialist, becomes infuriated when the new Obama administration is more reviled than his colonial British government. "We worked so hard to be tyrannical!" he proclaims to one protester. "You're going to give it to Obama for a three percent tax hike?!"

--Corbin Hiar

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